Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • A63F1/00—Card games
  • A63F1/04—Card games combined with other games

Definitions

• This report is to describe a structural set that relates information and/or stimulii to each other, and more particularly, to describe a cybernetic or pedagogic model which is presented in the form of a game.
• This game uses especially designed boards - either fixed or dissassemblable -, dice and playing-like cards that are used to enhance the 5 ability of the learner to create and to establish relationships between the different elements that make up one or more subjects or topics.
• the Structural Set being described herein incentivates the learner to think for himself or herself, through a process of relating information or stimulii presented to him or to her by the different 10 objects that make up the set.
• the Structural Set in question is suitable to a wide variety of topics and subjects, such as all spoken languages for instance, including the so-called dead languages. It can also be used to help the learner with Grammar, High-School, College and all Technical courses, such as history, geography, science, arts, math and others - in summary, any and all 15 information that can be taught.
• this invention is made up of a set of fixed boards, of flexible board sets that may be folded; of dissassemblable boards; of dice and of special game-like cards that contain a set of data and other elements which stimulate and which allow the learner to relate the data and the other elements, expressing the relationships between them, and creating a series of answers to a given question or request, which in itself is also contained in the physical components of the game.
• the structural set being described herein allows the learner to work alone or in partnership, soliciting and/or deriving combinations that enhance, if necessary, the relationship between the elements that have been furnished.
• Figure 1 represents schematically a view in perspective of the fixed board that is part of the set.
• Figure 2 represents schematically a view in perspective of the foldable board that is part of the set.
• Figure 3 represents schematically an expanded view of the disassemblable board that is part of the set.
• Figure 4 represents a view in perspective of one of the possible configurations of the dice that are part of the set. (The illustration shows one of the faces being removed).
• Figure 5 represents schematically a view in perspective of the card set.
• Figure 6 represents schematically the lay-out of the specific fields for the data on each card.
• Figure 7 represents schematically how a transparent mask may be placed over a given card in such a way that the viewer will not be able to see the data, also printed on the card, with the same color of the mask M.
• a pedagogic game cybernetic model made up of a base board (TB) manufactured of wood or some other rigid material; a foldable board (TV), manufacutred of some resistent material that allows itself to 5 be folded; a board that may be dissassembled (TD) which is made up of flat, rectangular pieces which when placed together make up the board itself; a die with multiple faces like for example, six, nine, twelve or more faces (D), and a glossematic set of playing-like cards (B), made up of a minimum of twenty cards (C).
• the base board (TB) usually presents three lines - LI, L2 and L3, of different colors, and 10 three or four columns - Cl, C2, C3 and C4. The number of columns is determined by the subject being studied.
• Each color for the lines LI, L2 and L3 contains one item of a given topic.
• the item could be a verb form.
• Each column - Cl, C2, C3 ....Cm - contains information related to that item.
• the columns 5 Cl , C2, C3...Cm are mandatorily named according to the type of information being discussed and according to the relationships that are to be recreated.
• the Portuguese language the first column Cl may act as a catalyst or stimulus.
• Column C2 may serve as a help column;
• column C3 may be a difficulty;
• column C4 may show situations of actual usage, and so on.
• the base board, TB should be manufactured of rigid material with nothing written on in, but it should be able to accept the assembly of the other boards of variations (TV), that contain a wide variety of subjects.
• the base board, TB should have an all-around frame.
• the title of each column - Cl, C2, C3,...Cn should come above the square subdivisions.
• the line for the title (LT) should be 5 demarcated by a white line above the said subdivisions.
• the board of variations is normally subdivided into twelve sections, made up of four columns and of three lines, identical to the ones described for the base board TB.
• the subdivisions of the variations board (TV) will contain the different items of information relating to a given topic. For instance, they may contain a verb form distributed in three 0 lines, LI, L2 and L3, with the present, the past perfect and the future tenses.
• the four columns, Cl, C2, C3 and C4 would contain a stimulus, the facilities, the difficulties and a situation of usage.
• verb forms would be the determined topic.
• the variations board may be supplied in kit form, each kit dealing with a specific 5 topic, such as geography: climate and/or fauna; history: the industrial revolution and so on.
• the dissassemblable board, TD is made up of square pieces, painted with the same color scheme used on the variations board TV.
• Each square piece (1) should have a frontal face containing the same items of information contained on each one of the spaces on the variations board TV. On the back, the items of o information would be expanded. In other words, the learner would be presented with new elements or new items of information.
• the number of square pieces on the disassemblable board TD varies according with need. It should, however, be more than twelve.
• the square pieces, 1, should be in such a number that they would contain enough information about a given topic to really exhaust its range of study.
• the number of squares (1) is subdivided into nine levels, each level corresponding to an increased degree of difficulty.
• the nine levels of the dissassemblable board TD of the kit being discussed would correspond to the first eight years of basic schooling, with an additional level for advanced students.
• the structured kit in question encompasses: a single base board TB.
• white TV and TD boards there may be also included elements establishing relationships that were not part of the original kit, and which were developed later as the need arose.
• the die, D contains multiple faces which are dissassemblable, and which may be taken out 5 of its original structural frame. These faces may contain information and/or stimulii either on the front or on the back portion of each face, as illustrated in figures 4 and 4a.
• the die has the purpose of incentivating the learner to relate the elements and/or informations on the die with other items on the same die. Or to relate the elements and/or informations on the die with other components of the set. Or even to sometimes identify 0 theoretical denominations.
• the glossematic deck of playing-like cards, B is made up of at least twenty cards relating to the same topic. Each card contains items of information that were selected according the their degree of utility to their target public. They are, therefore, selected according the their frequency of usage. 5 As shown by figure 6, the cards C of the deck of play-like cards B, contain the spaces determining the specific fields that will contain the different items of information.
• each card C The type of information that will be found on each card C is determined according to: its positioning relative to the physical space of the card C; the shading of the color in which the information was printed; and by symbols printed on the front face of the card C. o Thus, there is a symbol defined for each card C and this symbol is printed on the front face of the card. This symbol is used to define the classification type for a given expression, title or topic.
• the front face of the card C also contains at least one expression-title containing relatable information . On the back of the card C, there are pairs or couplets of information that are related and which are relatable to the expression 'title' which was defined on the 5 front face of the card C.
• the items of information on the back portion of the card C are related in some form to the items of information contained on the corresponding variations board TV.
• the items of information contained on the cube or die D refer to techical terms that allow one to estabish - or not as the case may be - adequate relationships with the remaining component pieces of o thee structural set; including relationships with one or more additional cubes or dice that make up the t
• a lay-out, G is also an integral part of the kit
• the lay-out is made of a convenient transparent material, that allows easy viewing of the items of information contained on eack card.
• a mask, M made of a convenient translucid material, and in different colors is also part of the kit. The mask M, when placed over the card C, hides selected items of data and/or stimulii, that have been printed on the card using the same color as that of the mask M.
• the system may additionally be manipulated in parts. Meaning individually each one of its component elements TD, TV, D, B or any combination among them; two by two, three by three, or all of them simultaneously.

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